149663 - Mozilla does not honor Page Setup defaults in prefs.js or user.js

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[jwbodnar]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    2002053012

Mozilla 1.0 does not honor the Page Setup default options that can be set in
prefs.js or user.js.  These are:

print.print_footercenter
print.print_footerleft
print.print_footerright
print.print_headercenter
print.print_headerleft
print.print_headerright

I believe this is related to Bug ID 122798.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Add the appropriate lines to prefs.js or user.js.  The lines below should result
in no printed headers or footers.

user_pref("print.print_footercenter", "");
user_pref("print.print_footerleft", "");
user_pref("print.print_footerright", "");
user_pref("print.print_headercenter", "");
user_pref("print.print_headerleft", "");
user_pref("print.print_headerright", "");



Actual Results:  Although these lines remain in prefs.js or user.js between
Mozilla sessions, the Page Setup dialog box always displays the standard Mozilla
defaults.

Expected Results:  Use the settings specified by the various print.print_ options.

N/A

Comment 1

[ghosh]

This WFM for header/footer on:

Mozilla 1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

but I can confirm this for print margins and for the rest there
is unfortunately no possibility to save it anyway.

Comment 2

[Jason M. Abels]

Are these prefs even still there?

Comment 3

[jwbodnar]

> Are these prefs even still there?

I think so.  I'm running one of the 1.5 nightly builds at home, and my Page
Setup options for headers and footers show "Other" and print with the blanks as
shown below:

user_pref("print.print_footercenter", "");
user_pref("print.print_footerleft", "");
user_pref("print.print_footerright", "");
user_pref("print.print_headercenter", "");
user_pref("print.print_headerleft", "");
user_pref("print.print_headerright", "");

What I'm not totally certain about now is if it consistently honors these.  I've
printed things a couple of times that did come out with the default Mozilla
headers and footers, but I would need to try this a few times to make sure.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[daitheflu]

This bug is still present in Thunderbird 8 !
I think it should be reopened.

Comment 7

[daitheflu]

Okay, I've done some "research" and found out that this bug doesn't exist in Firefox 8.0.
So, I fired up the about:config panel in Firefox 8.0 and found out that there are several properties for printing settings :

print.print_footercenter
print.print_footerleft
print.print_footerright
print.print_headercenter
print.print_headerleft
print.print_headerright

But also these ones :

print_footercenter
print_footerleft
print_footerright
print_headercenter
print_headerleft
print_headerright

And, guess what... Firefox ignores ones that are prefixed by "printing."

So, I started Thunderbird 8.0, went to the about:config panel and *added* manually (because they didn't exist) the following properties :

print_footercenter
print_footerleft
print_footerright
print_headercenter
print_headerleft
print_headerright

And it works well.

So the solution might be very easy : remove the old properties that aren't used anymore, and create the new ones if they don't exist :)